[ SECRET POST #3491 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3491 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [repeat]


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[A Game of Thrones, Lyanna Mormont]


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04.
[Taylor Swift]


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05.
[Spongebob Squarepants]


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06.
[old French politics, RPS]


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[Sherlock Holmes, "The Final Problem”]


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(Camille Bordey and Richard Poole, Death in Paradise)


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[Futurama]


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[Bill Skarsgård at Pennywise in the new remake of It]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I did kind of like it, but to be honest I didn't like how one-sided it felt. Look at Camille, she's smoking hot and intelligent. I wish the show would've shown us more of Richard to explain why she'd pine over him. Being brilliant at solving crimes but extremely rude and poor at social skills is not the kind of package that usually draws in gorgeous women, not unless you've got a huge bank account or a royal title to go with it.

[annethecatdetective]

I loved Richard... he was rubbish at social skills and bad at change, but if it was pointed out to him plainly instead of left for him to pick up on subtle cues, he wasn't totally inflexible and uncaring-- when they were first partners, she called him out on treating her as an assistant more than a partner, and he changed that right away. He was encouraging with Fidel, once he was told that was what was needed of him... He was definitely a lot more reserved than... well, anyone else on Ste Marie, but she didn't fall for him right away, she warmed up to him bit by bit as she saw that there was more to him than being rigid and inflexible and asocial. I mean, she saw him in his pajamas, learned that he bought cat food for his lizard... they got to know each other and worked out how to compromise a bit when it came to their very different personalities.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but it rubs me the wrong way when a grown adult needs to be taught how to treat people with respect and kindness and if they actually respond to it and behave as they should've behaved from the beginning, we're supposed to applaud that?

[annethecatdetective]

I mean, there's a difference between needing to be taught how to treat people and needing to be prompted to follow proper social rules, and not all grown adults have the same set of skills to work from.

Even if you don't go into extra headcanons and view him as autistic, the show gives us enough to go on without that-- we know that he doesn't have a warm relationship with his father. We know that at university, Richard had one close friend, and that most of his social circle didn't really care for him much. We know that he dealt with workplace bullying at his previous posting. All those things allow for the inference that, whether or not he's neurotypical, Richard didn't have the best social development, and can be over-defensive, socially, having not had good relationships with previous coworkers.

I'm not saying backpats and cookies should be handed out for 'managing to be less of a jerk than previously', but I am saying that Richard isn't presented as being a cruel person, just a blunt one without strong social skills, and that getting to see beyond his initial prickly exterior, one could develop feelings for someone who they'd initially disliked.